# Nell Dawson Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060912010208`
- **School name**: Nell Dawson Elementary
- **Location**: Coalinga, CA 93210
- **Address**: 1303 Sunset Ave.
- **District**: Coalinga-Huron Unified (LEAID `0609120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–3
- **Coordinates**: 36.14770, -120.36420
- **Phone**: (559)935-7580
- **Website**: http://chusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 405
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 29.8% proficient — 222 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.3% (135 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.4% (148 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 84.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.0% — 44 students
- **English Learners**: 27.9% — 123 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,366
- **Federal share**: $7,531
- **State + local share**: $13,835
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 440
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,339,197
- **Federal share**: 11.2%
- **State share**: 72.1%
- **Local share**: 16.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,638,475

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,440
- **Poverty rate**: 15.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.7%
- **Unemployment**: 14.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,068
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.3 miles (ATLAS ASBESTOS MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 24.58 miles (NEW IDRIA MERCURY MINE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COALINGA-CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sunset Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 15.6% (this school: 29.3%)
- **Miles W. Culwell Community Day** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 29.3%)
- **Coalinga High** — 0.2 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 29.3%)
- **Cambridge High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 29.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sunset Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 37.75% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Coalinga High** — 0.2 mi away, 38.25% (this school: 24.9%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/nell-dawson-elementary-coalinga/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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